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The 1, 2, 3 Playtime publication with the collected reports and reflections from the 1, 2, 3 Playtime project is now available online!The workshop and lecture series, initiated by IAC and Region Skåne, culminated in the Malmö Gallery Weekend 2024 exhibition at IAC. We are happy to share insights into the processes, ideas, and possibilities that emerged during 1, 2, 3 Playtime (2023–24).1, 2, 3 Pla

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/1-2-3-playtime-lab-report-available-online - 2025-09-17

In recent years, Lund University has invested much to emphasize the role of culture and the arts in education, research and innovation. To support teaching practitioners in this work, money for seed funding was announced last autumn.One of the four funded projects is “The Physics of Opera – About tones in light and colours in sound”, in which the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts is collaboratin

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/seed-funding-project-physics-opera - 2025-09-17

As a flagship of the Swedish National Data Service (SND) at LU 2025–26, the IAC Art Files project has started in January 2025. The purpose of IAC Art Files is to set up a platform and a portal that enables management and display of individual, thematic and interdisciplinary knowledge production in the arts, as well as sharing functions for artistic research data – to reinforce contact and exchange

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/iac-art-files-project-started - 2025-09-17

Today, 25 March, marks the launch of Researchdata.se, a new national web portal designed to make it easier for researchers to find, share, and reuse research data across various disciplines.Through a searchable platform, users gain access to thousands of datasets and resources for sustainable data management throughout the research process. The portal facilitates collaboration between universities

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/researchdatase-swedens-new-portal-research-data - 2025-09-17

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete. Photo: Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete has been a doctoral student at the Malmö Academy of Music since September 2020 and will soon be defending his dissertation project “Plastic Extension of Music” (22 May 2025). Part of his doctoral defence is a large exhibition that will take place at IAC (16–23 May 2025). What is your dissertatio

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/bertrand-chavarria-aldrete - 2025-09-17

Fernando Garnero. Photo: Maire Palacios. Fernando Garnero has been a doctoral student at the Malmö Academy of Music since September 2020 and will defend his dissertation project "Mutations in the Composable – Compositional Practice as a Space of Experimentation, Tension, and Uncertainty” on 12 May 2025. Part of his doctoral defence is a concert that will take place at IAC (11 May 2025). What is yo

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/meet-fernando-garnero - 2025-09-17

Vilbjørg Broch, 3D projection of 8D hypercube. VILBJØRG BROCH The More Sound jury received many interesting applications for a residency at IAC by the closing date on 1 May 2025, and one project has now been selected: congratulations to Danish composer Vilbjørg Broch!Vilbjørg Broch (* 1967) has a background in postmodern dance, improvisation and vocal performance. Her studies include School for Ne

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/more-sound-artist-selected-vilbjorg-broch - 2025-09-17

As a researcher in need of storage for your research data you can now order and manage research data folders in Lucat. The new storage solution is free of charge and gives:improved backupa smoother ordering and administration processan overview of your projects and studiesincreased control and authorization management possibilitiespossibility to increase storage volume free of charge when needed.F

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/new-storage-solution-research-data-free-charge - 2025-09-17

LUCSUS office buildings LUCSUS announces three new Associate senior lectureship (tenure track) positions in Sustainability Science Associate senior lecturer in Sustainability Science: Geographies of Sustainability  (link to the announcement at lu.varbi.com) The applicant should have an interdisciplinary background with a focus on natural science and methods. The position focuses on the geographica

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-positions-associate-senior-lecturers - 2025-09-17

The first session of outdoor pedagogics, to stimulate the children’s reflections and questions around their local environment, facilitated by the artist and pedagogue Jasmine Cederqvist. A unique collaboration between school children and researchers and students at LUCSUS, focusing on children’s thoughts and questions related to sustainable development, aims to contribute to the development of a f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-school-children-focuses-childrens-ideas-and-questions-sustainable-development - 2025-09-17

Boy cycling to school through smog in Indonesia (Photo: Aulia Erlangga) How vulnerable is humanity in the face of climate change? And how have people around the world already been impacted? These are some of the questions to be answered on 28 February by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two researchers from Lund University participated in the final report – Martina Angela Carett

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-how-vulnerable-are-we-and-how-can-we-adapt - 2025-09-17

Next to the Swedish craft beer brewery Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers have built a greenhouse where they test the possibility to grow all year-round hops. In a collaboration with the Swedish local brewery, Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers are working toward finding ways of improving sustainability of the craft beer industry. The project is part of an international research project, which f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-collaboration-local-brewery-improve-sustainability-craft-beer-industry - 2025-09-17

How to source inner qualities and capacities for life-long learning and transformation? In the new book, “Revolutionizing sustainability education”, LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler and LUMES alumni Iris Maria Hertog and Lucia Di Paola, reflect on the importance of nourishing inner qualities and capacities for supporting sustainability across individual, collective and system levels. Currently,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-book-revolutionizing-sustainability-education - 2025-09-17

LUCSUS researchers Barbara Schröter and Torsten Krause are studying how we can achieve more sustainable value chains for e.g. gold and cattle in Colombia. The Caquetá River in Putumayo, Colombia. Photo: Barbara Schröter The increasing demand of minerals, oil, and agricultural goods have severe negative social and environmental impacts. The extraction of resources leads to land dispossession of sma

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/achieving-more-sustainable-value-chains-are-crucial-preventing-deforestation-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-09-17

New study quantifies how well 12 measures reduce car use, drawing from real-world experience in cities across Europe. Researchers have identified the top 12 ways European cities have been able to curb car use. The most effective measure was applying a congestion charge, with the notable case of London, where city traffic dropped by 33% following the change. Most success stories involved both “carr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/most-effective-ways-reducing-car-traffic - 2025-09-17

With a focus on justice and transformative change, PhD candidate Natalia Rubiano wants to contribute to fill some of the knowledge gaps in the space of Carbon Removal and Negative Emissions. Read more about her research, which sustainability challenges she finds most interesting and how she as a researcher addresses those challenges. What do you explore in your research? My PhD project seeks to ex

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-natalia-rubiano-studies-social-and-ecological-implications-negative-emissions - 2025-09-17

To meet the climate crisis, we urgently need more integrative policy approaches that link inner and outer dimensions of climate change, states a newly released report co-authored by LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler. – Climate change is a physical reality, demanding urgent political, structural and practical solutions. But its inner dimension, overlooked entirely by mainstream approaches, is a cr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-about-meeting-climate-crisis-inside-out - 2025-09-17

Image by Svensk kolinlagring from the farm Måttgårds regenerativa, in Halland, Sweden. The agricultural sector and industrial food system is a major contributor to climate change, and biodiversity loss, and particularly vulnerable to its impacts. It is therefore essential to re-think how the agricultural systems can sequester more carbon, and simultaneously create vital ecosystems. A recent resear

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-envisioning-sustainable-carbon-sequestration-swedish-farmland - 2025-09-17

A new report written by LUCSUS researchers Kimberly Nicholas and Wim Carton, together with other researchers from the network Researchers' Desk, analyzes the Swedish political parties' climate policies prior to the election. Find out who is listening to the climate science and who is not. – Climate policy should be evidence-based, fair, & get to the root of problems. Together with eight other rese

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-analyzes-swedish-political-parties-climate-policies-prior-election - 2025-09-17

Kelly Dorkenoo argues that research on loss and damage could benefit from engaging more meaningfully, both methodologically and empirically, with the concept of disproportionality. In a new research article, PhD student Kelly Dorkenoo, together with researcher Murray Scown, and Director Emily Boyd, examines disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change. She argues that disproportionali

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-disproportionality-loss-and-damage-climate-change - 2025-09-17